Thomas Hardy Quotes
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
Quotes to Explore
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.
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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
